text: Influences upon alchemy &ndash; alchemy developed dependent on a number of influences and experienced regional and period-specific variations:
  *Aristotelianism
  *Esotericism
  **Western Esotericism
  ***Esoteric Christianity
  *Gnosticism
  *Hermeticism
  *Humorism
  *Metallurgy
  **History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent
  *Platonism
  **Neoplatonism
  *Pseudoscience
  *Pythagoreanism
  *Taoism
  *Stoicism